Funding Opportunities for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Updated December 2023

This page contains information about and opportunities from funding agencies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Funding opportunities will be updated quarterly. If you have questions about any of these opportunities, please contact ndsu.researchdev@ndsu.edu. 

Resources

Research Development and Grant Writing News

NDSU holds a subscription to this monthly e-newsletter, and the archive is accessible here with your NDSU log-in. Articles that have appeared in recent editions include:

  • Educational and Social Sciences Web Resources
  • Using ChatGPT When Writing Proposals: What It Can and Can't Do
  • Basice Grant Writing Training Presentation
  • Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunites and News

Each addition also typically includes a selected list of opportunities and news in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Art. 

NSF Data Infrastructure Resources for Social Science

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has published a list of infrastructure resources created with support from the NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. You can access the list here. 

NEA National Archive of Data on Arts & Culture

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) National Archive of Data on Arts & Culture, or NADAC, is an online repository of arts-related datasets (161 to date, with 91,790 variables) that the NEA maintains at the University of Michigan’s Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Researchers, arts managers, and others can download and analyze the data for free, or request to deposit their own files for curation by the ICPSR team. In addition to these services, NADAC keeps a running tab of publications (1,218 so far) using the datasets.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds projects that strengthen teaching and learning in schools and colleges, facilitate research and original scholarship, provide opportunities for lifelong learning, preserve and provide access to cultural and educational resources, and strengthen the institutional base of the humanities. For many of their funding programs, NEH program officers will read a draft proposal and provide comments ahead of the application deadline. To learn more about applying to the NEH, view these recorded webinars >>.
 

NEH funding opportunities with upcoming deadlines include:

 

National Science Foundation (NSF)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences supports basic research on people and society. The SBE sciences focus on human behavior and social organizations and how social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental forces affect the lives of people from birth to old age and how people in turn shape those forces. To learn more about NSF SBE and applying to NSF, these webinars (recorded June 2022) may be of help:

NSF SBE funding opportunities with upcoming deadlines include: 

  • Developmental Sciences [PD 08-1698]
    Deadlines: January 30, 2024; July 30, 2024
  • Social Psychology [PD 22-1332]
    Deadlines: January 16, 2024; July 15, 2024
  • Linguistics [PD 98-1311]
    Deadline: January 15, 2024; July 15, 2024
  • Law & Science [PD 21-128Y]
    Deadlines: January 15, 2024; August 1, 2024
  • Accountable Institutions and Behavior [PD 19-120Y]
    Deadlines: January 15, 2024; August 15, 2024
  • Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR) [NSF 23-581]
    Deadlines: January 16, 2024; August 15, 2024
  • Archaeology Program Senior Research Awards (Arch-SR) [NSF 23-566]
    Deadlines: July 1, 2024
  • Sociology [PD 98-1331]
    Deadline: ANYTIME
  • Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences [PD 23-1321]
    Deadlines:January 18, 2024; August 19, 2024
  • Economics [PD 23-1320]
    Deadlines: January 18, 2024; August 19, 2024
  • Ethical and Responsible Research [NSF 23-630]
    Deadline: January 25, 2024
  • Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics [NSF 19-575]
    Deadlines:  January 25, 2024; August 29, 2024
  • Developmental Sciences [PD 08-1698]
    Deadlines: January 30, 2024; July 30, 2024
  • Perception, Action & Cognition [PD 09-7252]
    Deadline:  January 15-February 1, 2024
  • Science of Organizations [PD 11-8031]
    Deadlines: February 2, 2024; September 3, 2024
  • Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact [PD 19-125Y]
    Deadlines: February 12, 2024; September 9, 2024
  • Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (RISBS) [PD 23-277Y]
    Deadline: ANYTIME

 
See the full list of funding opportunities from NSF SBE >>
 
In collaboration with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), NSF is also interested in projects to identify and support research that advances knowledge about the impact of public health guidance. Learn more >>

 

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) supports the nation’s arts sector with grant opportunities. To learn more about applying to NEA and the types of grants provided, view the resources on this page >>.

NEA programs with upcoming deadlines include:

 

See all grant opportunities through NEA >>

National Humanities Center (NHC)

The National Humanities Center is unique: a free standing national resource devoted to advancing significant humanistic study and reflection and to making those insights available both inside and outside the academic world. 

 

NHC funding opportunities with upcoming deadlines include:

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is dedicated to building a Culture of Health that provides everyone in America a fair and just opportunity for health and wellbeing.  They create grants and grant programs that inspire bold ideas, encourage creative solutions, and demonstrate transformative potential. The Foundation also works to identify new approaches that would bring about meaningful change, and to broaden the discussion about health equity. Perhaps most importantly, they view evaluation and learning as the cornerstone of our approach to philanthropy. The Foundation believes deeply in the value of sharing key insights from grantmaking—what worked, what didn’t, and why.  Follow this link for a full list of Grant Opportunities.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant opportunities with upcoming deadlines include:

Spencer Foundation

The Spencer Foundation has been a leading funder of education research since 1971 and is the only national foundation focused exclusively on supporting education research. The Foundation believes education research is integral to improving education, making education systems more equitable, and increasing opportunities to learn across the lifespan. Follow this link for a full list of Funding Opportunities.

Spencer Foundation programs with upcoming deadlines include:

William T. Grant Foundation

The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States. Follow this link for all Grant Opportunities.

Current Funding Opportunities under the Wiliam T. Grant Foundation are listed below:

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